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Andrew Sutton

Corryong Cup 2024 · Task 4 (Open) (Fri, 12 Jan 2024) · open · ranked #46 · times in Australia/Melbourne (GMT+11)

Scores computed

Landed out at 5.0 km — 66.7 points

The flight

What the tracklog shows, and which crossings scored.

Crossed the start 1:59 before the first start gate opened at 14:00:00 — an early start ("jumping the gun", FAI S7F §12.2). The speed-section clock runs from the first gate.

Day quality — points on offer

Task validity 55.81% of a perfect day, so 558.1 of 1000 points were available.

Launch validity — did enough registered pilots launch?100%
Distance validity — did the field fly far enough relative to the nominal distance?55.81%
Time validity — was the winning time long enough relative to the nominal time?100%
Points on offer for the day558.1 pts

1000 × 1.00 × 0.5581 × 1.00 = 558.1

Split between the components by the goal ratio

distance 464.5 · time 65.6 · leading 16.4 · arrival 11.7

Distance points

66.7 pts
Flew -2.2 km, less than the 5.0 km minimum — scored as the minimum distance.
Scored distance5.0 km

Measured along the optimized task line, up to the furthest point on course.

Best distance in class67.6 km
Linear half — half the available points scale with your share of the best distance17.2 pts

0.5 × (5.0 km ÷ 67.6 km) × 464.5 = 17.2

Difficulty half — rewards flying past stretches where many pilots landed49.5 pts

The difficulty curve is built from where the whole field landed out (FAI S7F §11.1.1).

Time points

0 pts
Time points are only awarded to pilots who reach the end of the speed section.

Leading points

0 pts
Leading points reward flying out front during the speed section — the pilot with the best leading coefficient takes all available leading points, others fall off with the gap.0 pts
Measured with the classic squared-distance leading coefficient (S7F §11.3.1, the hang-gliding / GAP2016–2018 variant).

Arrival points

0 pts
Arrival points reward crossing the end of the speed section early relative to the other pilots who reached it.0 pts

Penalty

-59.5 pts
Jump the gun (FAI S7F §12.2): started 1:59 before the first start gate. The complete flight is scored, with 1 penalty point per 2 seconds early; the total never drops below the minimum-distance score.−59.5 pts

119 s early ÷ 2 s per point = 59.5 points

Total

66.7 pts
Distance + time + leading + arrival, minus penalties66.7 pts

66.7 + 0.0 − 59.5 jump-the-gun would come to 7.2, but the jump-the-gun penalty never drops a pilot below the minimum-distance score (FAI S7F §12.2) — so the total is 66.7.